Tag Sticky Post For WordPress

Tag Sticky Post for WordPress is a plugin that allows you to mark a post as sticky within a specific tag archive. It works exactly like the typical sticky post functionality within WordPress, except that it’s specifically for tag archives.

This means that if you have a set of articles under one tag, you can mark one to always appear at the top of the tag archive.

This plugin came out of a direct need that I have for my own site: All of my projects are located in the Projects category, but each project has its own tag.

The problem is that I often write a post introducing the project, what it does, why I wrote it, and where you can find more information about it. But over time, I write posts that cover various updates or other issues about the project ultimately pushing the introductory post – arguably the most important post – lower into the archive.

The thing is, that post is the one I want readers to see as soon as they visit the archive. To solve this problem, I wrote Tag Sticky Post. You can see the plugin in action in the Comment Images archive.

When you’re editing the page on which you want to stick at the top of the tag archive, you select the name of the tag from the dropdown that’s available on the left-side (or right-side depending on your language) of your screen that’s labeled “Tag Sticky Post.”

I’m trying to modify this plugin so that it can work with a custom post’s custom taxonomy (maybe complicated, not sure). Basically, I’m working on tweaking line 126 of class-tag-sticky-post.php to adapt to create a similar list of objects for the taxonomy as the tags.

Not sure if you’d know the right approach right off the bat, but thought I’d ask. If you’d like a link to my site, I can email it over.